Improvement in carriage-clips



F. B. MORSE.

Carriage Clip.

No. 110,581. Patented Dec 27, 1 870.

lnvenfor N4 PHERS, Phow-Lflhvgnpber. Washington. D c.

FRANCIS B. Mensa, OFPLANTSVILLE, oon nnorroonkssreuoa TO HIM- a SELF'ANDH. D'. '09., OF SAMEPLAOE.

Letters Patent No. 1 1 tl,581, dated Dccember2Z-1870.

- IMPROVEMENT m CARRIAGE-curs;

The Schedule referred to in tliese Letters I'atent and making part ofthe same.

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRAxcIs B. Mouse, ofPlants- -ville,-in the county of Hartford and State of Gonnecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Carriage- Clips; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and

' which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents in-' Figure 1, a top view;

Figure 2, a transverse section of the clip after trimrning; I v

Figure 3, atra'nsverse section as finished; and in "Figure 4, atransverse sectionof an oval clip.

This invention relates to an improvement in carriage-clips.

' 1n the manufacture of carriage-clips, after the clip has been formedit is placed in the trimming-die and the fin around the body of the clipis cut away, leaving a comparatively thick edge, and often rough, thetrimming being the last process except what may be done by hand.

The object of my invention is to finish the edge of the clip after itcomes from the trimming-die; and

It consists in bringing the edge of the clip, from shank to shank, downto a thin, sharp edge by striking it in dies prepared for the purposeafter the trimming operation.

A is the body of the clip.

B B, the two shanks.

As heretofore formed, the body of the clip has been "made of an equalthickness and trimmed, leaving it in transverse section, as seen-in fig.2. This edge hassometimes been filed away. over the central 'po'rtiou'ofthe clip, but only in the very best of work, as the expense of so doingis too great.

To finish the clip, I prepare adieof the form of the clip, with achamfered edge from shank to shank, the

impres'sion'in the die being'a little wider' than the trimmed clip; thenplace the trimmed clip, heated.- simply to a dark-red heat, not enoughto form a scale, into the die, and strike it therein by a follower inthe usual manner, and the edge is chamfered corresponding to the die, asseen in fig. 3, from shank to shank, as seen in fig. 1, finishing theclip to a sharp edge.

If an ovalclip is preferred, as seenin transverse section, fig. 4, thedie is prepared accordingly, and the clip, as it comes from thetrimming-die, is again struck,

as described for the chamfered edge, the oval surface shank to shank,after the clip has been trimmed,sub-

stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

F. B. MORSE.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY.

l ditto.

